He took a diploma in violin at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in that city, studying under Gioacchino Maglioni [it].

[2] He studied conducting under Paul van Kempen at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and under Igor Markevitch at the summer academy of the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg in Austria.

[2] On 10 August 1951 he conducted a performance of Ma mère l'oye by Maurice Ravel there.

[4] In 2004 he was appointed artistic director of the Teatro Massimo, the opera house of Palermo.

[5] Piero Bellugi taught master-classes at several institutions including the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, the University of California, Berkeley, and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.