This week's From the Top comes from New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall in Boston. Our line-up of outstanding performers includes an 11-year-old pianist from Oregon who says she's really shy (you be the judge!), and a 17-year-old timpanist from here in Massachusetts who'll give us an entertaining introduction to the big copper drums.

This week's From the Top, from the Heifetz International Music Institute in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, features a return visit from a performer who played piano on one of our earliest shows and is now making her way in the real world -- as a critically-acclaimed singer/ songwriter!

From the Holland Performing Arts Center in Omaha, Nebraska, this week's From the Top demonstrates that our national cultural life is thriving in the heart of America. You'll meet two kids from the Great Plains -- an 18-year-old violist playing Schumann and a pianist, also 18, playing Paul Creston. Plus, a teenage percussion quartet from Chicago improvises an homage to that American temple of fast food: McDonalds!

From Sinclair Auditorium at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, this week's From the Top includes a teenage string quartet from the Chicago area playing Shostakovich, an 18-year-old bass from nearby Cedar Falls singing Handel, and a nationally renowned teenage mandolin player 17-year-old Solly Burton is a nationally recognized mandolin player who relishes life on his family's farm in Sullivan, Indiana.

From Fraser Performance Studio at WGBH in Boston, From The Top launches their 10th Anniversary season with this week's show. To celebrate, they welcome back a violinist who was on our show ten years ago, and who has since undertaken the task of "changing the world through music."

This week's From the Top comes to you from New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall in Boston, where a 17-year-old pianist from Washington, D. C. performs Prokofiev, a teenage harpist from Atlanta plays the music of Carlos Salzedo, and the Boston Children's Chorus sings a contemporary composition by the Venezuelan composer Alberto Grau.

This week, from Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, New York, outstanding young musicians join forces with the great Buffalo Philharmonic under the direction of JoAnn Falletta. Among this week's highlights, you'll hear a 16-year-old violinist perform the finale of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, and Maestro JoAnn Falletta puts down her baton and picks up her guitar to trade licks one of today's talented teens.

This week, from the Saenger Theater in Mobile, Alabama, our line-up of outstanding performers includes a 12-year-old pianist from performing Debussy's Clair de Lune, a teenage bassoonist who's emerged from a family of gospel musicians, and Mobile's Singing Children performing Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus.

This week, from the Warren Performing Arts Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, our line-up includes a tuba-playing teen performing Vaughn Williams, an award-winning string quartet burning the house down with Bartok, and a piece of new music written and played by teenagers.