vn, vl, 1924-2012 IT, Florence
Musician / Conductor of Classical
Piero Bellugi (1924–2012) was a prominent Italian conductor and music educator from Florence. Initially, he studied violin/viola and composition (with Luigi Dallapiccola) at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory. Bellugi also attended Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Italy and Universität Mozarteum Salzburg in Germany. Piero studied conducting with Igor Markevitch, Rafael Kubelik, and Leonard Bernstein (at Berkshire Music Center). From 1955 to 1959, Piero Bellugi was the conductor of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, followed by the same position at Oregon Symphony Orchestra in 1959–61. He debuted at Teatro alla Scala, Milano in 1960 with Georg Friedrich Händel's opera Serse and became a guest conductor at La Scala the next year. In 1967, Bellugi started working as a permanent conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Di Torino Della RAI, and also acted in the same role at the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana. As a guest conductor, Piero Bellugi had appeared with Orchestra Del Teatro Dell'Opera Di Roma, Orchestre National De L'Opéra De Paris, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, The Lyric Opera Of Chicago Orchestra, San Francisco Opera Orchestra, and many other ensembles. Throughout his career, Bellugi conducted world premieres of several important pieces, including Darius Milhaud's Symphony No. 10 in 1961 and Settimo Concerto by Goffredo Petrassi in 1965. He gave workshops at several prestigious institutions in Europe and the United States, including the University of California, Berkeley, New England Conservatory of Music, and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana. In 1996, Piero started teaching at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory. His son, David Bellugi, (b. 1954) is a recorder virtuoso.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Serse (Xerxes) | Georg Friedrich Händel / Luigi Alva, Mirella Freni, Rolando Panerai, Fiorenza Cossotto, Piero Bellugi | 2009 | Album |
Symphony In D Major (Médée • Faniska • Lodoïska) | Luigi Cherubini, Orchestra Sinfonica Di Sanremo, Piero Bellugi | 2007 | Album |
Sinfonia In Re Maggiore - Ouvertures Medea, Faniska, Lodoiska | Luigi Cherubini, Orchestra Sinfonica Di Sanremo, Piero Bellugi | 2005 | Album |
Paganini Violin Concerto No. 4 | Niccolò Paganini, Giovanni Bottesini, Ruggiero Ricci, Piero Bellugi | 1978 | Album |
Paride ed Elena | Christoph Willibald Gluck, Katia Ricciarelli, Franco Bonisolli, Valeria Mariconda, Piero Bellugi, Carmen Lavani | 1973 | Album |
Concerti Per Violino N. 1 & 4 | Arthur Grumiaux - Niccolò Paganini - Piero Bellugi - Orchestre National De L'Opéra De Monte-Carlo | 1972 | Album |
Concerto No. 4 In D Minor / Grand Duo For Violin, Double And Orchestra / Le Streghe | The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Piero Bellugi, Ruggiero Ricci | 1971 | Album |
La Donna Del Largo | Gioacchino Rossini, Piero Bellugi | Album | |
Progetto Orchestra Del Chianti | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Vivaldi, Antonio Ricardo Luciani, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Piero Bellugi, David Bellugi | Album |