Russian‐American pianist Olga Kern will perform a program of music from her home country as well as Beethoven, Schumann and Earl Wild’s lively transcription of Gershwin’s “Fascinating Rhythm” on March 13 a the Indiana History Center. Born into a family of musicians with direct links to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, she began studying piano at the age of five. Kern’s career was jumpstarted with her historic Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition as the first woman to do so in more than thirty years.