"From the Top," the nonprofit organization known for its National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting System shows featuring young classical musicians, has awarded a $10,000 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award to an 18-year-old Honolulu pianist, Deborah Shophar Yeung.

The award comes with an invitation to perform on "From the Top."

Yeung's performance of Chopin's Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22 will be taped at the New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall in Boston on May 21, with the episode released for national broadcast the week of Sept. 8. In Hawai'i, the show will air at 10 a.m. Sept. 13 on KHPR 88.1, KKUA 90.7 and KANO 91.1.

Yeung is a student of Dr. Thomas Yee, a music professor at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa campus. She is the third Islander to earn a scholarship in recent years; the others are Andrew Ramos, a Moanalua High School student, and Aimi Watanabe, a Lahaina resident.