The h2 quartet (Geoffrey Deibel, Jeffrey Loeffert, Kimberly Goddard Loeffert and Jonathan Nichol) has partnered with the internationally recognized new music festival, The Cortona Sessions for New Music, to create a weeklong summer saxophone program held in beautiful Cortona, Italy in early July 2018. In addition to h2 quartet, the faculty for the Cortona Sessions Saxophone Collective (Christopher Creviston, Hannah Creviston, Joseph Lulloff and John Nichol) includes some of the most sought after saxophonists and pedagogues working in the United States. Taking place before the 2018 World Saxophone Congress, this new workshop will be titled the Cortona Sessions Saxophone Collective (CSSC) and should attract saxophonists from both the United States and Europe. This World Saxophone Congress performance would feature an ensemble comprised of faculty and students from the 2018 Cortona Sessions Saxophone Collective performing exciting new music for saxophone ensemble. http://h2quartet.com