Valery Kuleshov, the silver medalist of the 1993 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will appear at the Artists Showcase West concert at 3 p.m. Sunday in Downers Grove.
At the competition, Kuleshov was also awarded the prize for Best Performance of a Commissioned Work, for “Ghost Waltzes” by American composer Morton Gould. His performance at the Van Cliburn competition will be featured in a documentary on Dec. 15 on PBS.
Sunday’s concert will include works by Scarlatti, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt.
Tickets are $15, $10 for students. The concert will be staged at Downers Grove North High School, 4436 Main St., in the suburb. Call 708-969-2069 or 708-964-1855 to reserve tickets.
– Classical guitarist Christopher Parkening will perform at 8 p.m. Friday at the College of Du Page Arts Center Mainstage, 22nd Street and Park Boulevard, Glen Ellyn.
The repertoire will include “Leyenda,” by Isaac Albeniz; “Villanesca,” by Enriques Granados; Suite in “Modo Polonico,” by Alexandre Tansman; and “The Well-Tempered Clavier” by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Tickets are $23, $22 for students and senior citizens.
Also at the Arts Center’s Mainstage, the New Classic Singers will present “Grand International Opening,” a concert of choral works by Benjamin Britten, Henk Badings, Felix Mendelssohn and Philip Glass at 4 p.m. Sunday.
The program also will feature American spirituals and gospel songs.
Tickets are $10, $9 for senior citizens, $6 for students.
In the Arts Center’s Studio Theatre, a college production of “Independence,”-about a mother and three daughters and their struggle to find a balance between independence and family bonds-will run through Dec. 5.
Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays, and noon Wednesday.
Tickets are $6, $5 for students and senior citizens. Call 708-858-3110.
– Jazz vibist Lionel Hampton will take the stage at the Norris Theater in St. Charles at 7 p.m. Sunday.
Hampton has been involved in jazz for over half a century. He performed with Louis Armstrong in 1930 and with Benny Goodman in 1936. The list of sidemen who got their start performing with Hampton include Clark Terry, Fats Navarro, Quincy Jones and Charlie Mingus.
Tickets for Sunday’s concert are $19, $17 for children and senior citizens, $15 each for groups of 10 or more. The Norris Cultural Arts Center is at 1040 Dunham Rd., St. Charles. Call the box office at 708-584-7200.
– The Hanover Band, a 38-member orchestra that plays 18th Century instruments, will perform at 8 p.m. Friday at Wheaton College. Guest soloist is tenor John Aler.
The orchestra, directed by Roy Goodman, will play Haydn’s Symphony No. 86 in D Major, and three works by Mozart.
Tickets range from $15 to $23, with discounts for students and senior citizens. The concert will take place at Edman Memorial Chapel, Washington and Franklin Streets, Wheaton.
Also at Wheaton College, cellist Dan Davies will present “An Evening of Baroque Masterworks” at a faculty recital at 8 p.m. Monday in Barrows Auditorium, 500 College Ave., Wheaton.
Tickets are $5. For information, call 708-752-5010.
– The Chicago String Ensemble and the New Oratorio Singers will perform Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” at 8 p.m. Friday at Nazareth Academy Chapel Park, 1515 W. Ogden Ave., La Grange.
The featured soloists are soprano Patrice Michaels Bedi, alto Emily Lodine, tenor Kurt Hansen and bass Peter Van De Graaff.
Tickets are $20 for preferred seating, $15 for regular seating and $12 for students and senior citizens. Call 312-332-0567.
– The Downers Grove Park District will present two family-oriented plays on Friday at Lincoln Center in Downers Grove. ArtReach Touring Theatre performs “Alice in Wonderland” at 7 p.m. and “A Thousand Cranes” at 8:30 p.m.
Admission for each play is $6, $4 for Downers Grove park district residents. Lincoln Center is at 935 Maple Ave., Downers Grove. Call 708-963-1300.
– The Aurora Lamplighters Barbershop Chorus will present “And the Melody Lingers On!,” which also will feature the Fox Valley Festival Chorus and two quartets-Chicago News and Chordiac Arrest-at 8 p.m. Saturday at Aurora West High School, 1201 W. New York St., Aurora.
Tickets are $8; $7 for senior citizens. Call 708-859-1448.
– The Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial, a 25-member company representing the Winnebago, Crow, Navajo, Sioux, Apache and Ute tribes, will perform ritual dances and songs at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Paramount Arts Center, 23 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora.
Tickets are $15.50; $13.50 for children. Call the Paramount box office at 708-896-6666 or Ticketmaster at 312-902-1500.
– The Theatre of Western Springs will open its second mainstage production of the season, “The Corn Is Green,” at 8:15 p.m. Thursday.
The play will run through Nov. 14. Performances are at 8:15 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sundays.
Tickets are $10 on Thursdays and Sundays, $12 on Fridays and Saturdays. The Theatre of Western Springs is at 4384 Hampton Ave., Western Springs. Call 708-246-3380.
