Best Bets: Orchestra Iowa: Russian Festival

Orchestra Iowa's Masterworks concert features Ksenia Nosikova on Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1. The program also includes Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5. Nosikova, a piano professor at the University of Iowa School of Music, has performed extensively in Europe, Asia, Russia, the United States, Canada and South America.

Orchestra Iowa: Russian Festival

Coralville: 7:30 p.m. Friday (11/16), Coralville Center for the Performing Arts, 1301 Fifth St.; $28

Cedar Rapids: 7:30 p.m. Saturday (11/17), Paramount Theatre, 123 Third Ave. SE; $16 to $55; preshow entertainment by Kirkwood Community College Chamber Singers, 6:40 to 7:25 p.m., Opus Concert Cafe

Students: Grades K-12 free with paid adult, college students $10, through the ticket office, (319) 366-8203

Tickets: Paramount Ticket Office, (319) 366-8203 or Artsiowa.com/tickets/concerts/russian-festival/