I’m Demetrius Shahmehri, a writer on music, nature, and politics based in St. Paul, MN. I hold a PhD in Historical Musicology from Columbia University, but these days, I primarily focus on public-facing work.

I specialize in writing program notes for concerts. For several years, I’ve written notes for the “Music at Amherst” series at Amherst College. Please find more about that in the tab above or by clicking here.

The image for this website comes from Max Klinger’s 1894 Brahmsphantasie. Klinger’s illustration grows from the first lines of Brahms’s song “Alte Liebe:” “The dark swallow returns from a distant land…”​