Roslyn Frantz has been a popular piano soloist, concert artist, vocal coach, and accompanist in British Columbia, Canada, for more than 20 years. But her career goes back to when she was a youngster growing up in the United States. When she was four years old, her parents, who always believed she had a special talent, bought a grand piano and enrolled their daughter in a school that focused on the arts.

Their faith was justified. At age 12, Ms. Frantz performed the Mozart concerto no 21 (Elvira Madigan) with the Portland Junior Symphony. By age 16, she was performing with the Portland Symphony. Ms. Frantz went on to receive her music education at Mills College, the Music Academy of the West and the University of Arizona.

After an extensive career on the concert stage and with various orchestras, opera and musical theatre groups, Ms. Krantz relocated to Okanagan, in southern British Columbia, in 1981. Ms. Frantz teaches piano and voice at Roslyn Frantz Music Studios and is music director of Viva Musica, a nonprofit organization that brings high-caliber musical theater and operatic works the local stage.

Ms. Frantz says that by serving as a mentor to talented young people, she tries to pass on to others the kind of faith and support her parents provided her as a child.