After completing his musical studies at the "B. Marcello" Conservatory in Venice with the Maestri Sirio Piovesan and Renato Zanettovich Giuliano Fontantella won the first prize and the special prize for duos at the Vittorio Veneto competition in 1983; in 1985 he was awarded the first prize at the "City of Genoa" competition. He studied for three years at the Music School of Fiesole with the Trio of Trieste and Piero Farulli, then at Castelfranco Veneto with Franco Rossi. He attended the courses of Corrado Romano in Città di Castello, of Franco Gulli in Udine, and of Henryk Szeryng at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and in Venice. From 1985 to 1987 he was a student of Salvatore Accardo at the W. Stauffer Academy in Cremona. Giuliano soon begun an intense concert activity which, from 1989 to 1991, led him to perform the complete cycle of the Sonatas by W.A. Mozart in a duo with pianist Roberto Galletto, - on the occasion of the celebrations for the bicentenary of the composer's death - in various venues (Venice, Paularo, Turin and at the Salone dei Giganti in Padua). During the same years he played in theatres such as La Fenice in Venice (Sonata by M. Ravel for violin and piano) and, in orchestral and chamber groups, at the La Scala Theatre in Milan, La Pergola theatre in Florence, the Teatro Comunale in Treviso, the Komische Oper in Berlin, the Olimpico in Vicenza and the S. Carlo in Naples. As soloist and first violin within the "Interpreti Veneziani" ensemble he tours Europe, Russia, Japan, Australia and America (in 2007 the first tour in the United States, with performances in Virginia, Florida, Bermuda, Utah, New York, Ohio, Arkansas, Texas, Arizona, Hawaii, California), with concerts held in prestigious concert halls (Metropolitan Art Space, Kioi Hall, Suntory Hall and Asahi Hall in Tokyo, Minato Mirai Hall in Yokohama, Symphony Hall in Osaka, Kirov Theatre in St. Petersburg, Royal Palace of Stockholm, S. Michael Church in Melbourne, Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, Sala Verdi in Milan, Governor's Palace in Nassau, Colonial Art Museum in La Antigua, National Theatre of Caracas, among others). For concerts and recordings Giuliano was entrusted with the "Amati" that belonged to Giuseppe Tartini, the "Guarnieri del Gesù" owned by Antonio Vivaldi. In a duo with his wife Tania Salinaro recorded Busoni and Beethoven’s Sonatas for the Rivo Alto (Newton) label with Stradivari’s "Silvestre", "Hembert-Milanollo" and "King of Prussia" violins. Since 2008 he has held chamber music courses with "Musicagiovani" in Majano del Friuli, and since 2011 he has worked as artistic consultant for the Note Future concert season (which takes place on the Riviera del Brenta) for the discovery and enhancement of young musical talents. Giuliano was professor of violin at the "F.Cilea" Conservatory of Reggio Calabria for many years and since 2006 he has been teaching at the "J. Tomadini" Conservatory in Udine. Many of his students have won national and international competitions. Music apart, Giuliano is passionate about crime fiction: he wrote “Quelli dell'Hardboiled School“ and “I duri dell'Hardboiled” published on caffebook.it); he made his debut in 2014 with the novel “La ragazza nel fiume” -“The girl in the river”- (The Books of Emil, Odoya), the first chapter of the trilogy about the investigator Diego Spada. In 2017 “L’Affare Moreau” and “I figli dell’angelo nero", published by Robin Edizioni, were released. Giuliano's stories have won numerous writing/publishing competitions (Pistoia’s Crime Fiction festival in 2017, the Bukowsky Prize, finalist at the GialloLuna NeroNotte competition in collaboration with Mondadori publishing house). “Il caso dell'assassino distratto e altre storie” is the title of the anthology of stories published in 2018 by Robin Edizioni.