Our Mission
Concerts on the Slope curates remarkable concert experiences and aspires to make meaningful artistic contributions to our community in Park Slope and greater Brooklyn. Our programming pairs canonical works with music by living composers and features a unique year-long Composer in Residence program through which our artists and audiences explore a wide range of a composer’s catalog. Concerts on the Slope serves and enriches Brooklyn by presenting affordable, high quality chamber music performances.
For over a decade, Concerts on the Slope (COTS) has brought world-class chamber music performances into the heart of Park Slope, Brooklyn. The organization was founded in 2012 by cellist Benjamin Larsen to provide high quality presentations of chamber music to Brooklyn audiences whilst supplying emerging NYC-based musicians with performance opportunities.
Concerts on the Slope hosted its first Composer in Residence during the 2013-14 season, beginning a longstanding commitment to supporting the growth of the chamber music repertoire and bolstering the careers of contemporary composers. Alumni of COTS’s Composer in Residence program include Reena Esmail, Tania León, and Angel Lam.
Each year, Concerts on the Slope presents a season of approximately eleven concerts featuring gems of the chamber music canon alongside new works by the Composer in Residence and other emerging and established contemporary composers. Concerts on the Slope is hosted at St. John's Episcopal Church in Park Slope.
