After graduating in flute in Italy, with honors,  she then graduated also at the “Royal Northern College of Music “in Manchester, “ the International Academy of Music in Milan ” and ” the Hochschule für Musik” in Mannheim. Rita studied with Sir James Galway for many years, following the masterclasses of the Weggis Flute Festival in Switzerland, where she won the gold Nagahara 14K flute headjoint in 2008 and was invited as Guest Artist in 2016 and 2019.

First prize in numerous international competitions, she made her debut as soloist in 2011 at the Carnegie Hall in New York. She’s one of the few flutists to have in repertoire the Concierto Pastoral by J. Rodrigo.  She recorded for the German radios SR2, SWR and WDR, the Japanese National Television NHK and for the Vatican Radio. As a principal flute she worked at the “HPAC Orchestra” and the Osaka Philarmonic Orchestra in Japan; Filharmonia Gorzowska and the Kammersolisten der Deutschen Oper Berlin. She’s flute professor at the Department of Music of the German State University BTU – Cottbus, at the private University Akademie für Musik in Berlin, where she is also head of department for the orchestral instruments and regularly teaches in masterclasses in Asia, Europe and U.S.A.

“The art and joy of flute playing; learning with motivation and happiness in music making”.