Aquila Altera
The early music ensemble Aquila Altera takes its name from a madrigal by Jacopo da Bologna. It was born in L'Aquila in 1998 from an idea of Antonio Pro and Maria Antonietta Cignitti. Since its foundation, the ensemble has made use of the participation of musicians, singers, dancers and actors, specialised in the ancient repertoire, in its musical activity and historical-musicological research, with the aim of creating historically informed musical programmes.

It has been responsible for the artistic direction of numerous events and festivals, realised numerous musical productions studying codices and composers of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and collaborated in the realisation of musicological conferences for various Italian institutions and universities with a focus on the research and performance of the vast instrumental and vocal, sacred and secular, production of codes and composers from the Abruzzi of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.