Voted the best new talent in the 2000 critics poll Top Jazz conducted by a top-rated music magazine, Rosario Giuliani became seriously involved in the European jazz scene in 1997. The talented alto saxophonist achieved a first place at Brussels' Europe Jazz Contest, a major festival that led him to get a record deal with the Parisian label Dreyfus Jazz, named after Francis Dreyfus. Frosinone's Conservatory of Music graduate Rosario Giuliani joined the Giovani Talenti del Jazz Europeo, a European jazz orchestra sponsored by the Italian Broadcasting System RAI, before assembling the Giuliani Quartet along with pianist Pitero Lussu, bassist Dario Rosciglioni, and drummer Di Leonardo. ~ Drago Bonacich