There are several artists with that name: 1. a German organist, 2. a German blues harp musician.
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1) Martin Rost (born 1963 in Halle (Saale)) is a German organist. He studied from 1983 to 1989 at the University of Music and Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig. This was followed by a position as organist at the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach concert hall in Frankfurt (Oder) (1989–1997). Here he initiated the Wilhelm Sauer Organ Festival. In 1994 he was a member of the jury for Jugend musiziert. Since 1997 he has been organist and cantor at the St. Marien Church in Stralsund, which has an early baroque organ by Friedrich Stellwagen from 1659. In 1998 he initiated the Friedrich Stellwagen Organ Days. In 1998/1999 he taught at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald at the Institute for Church Music and Musicology located there. At the University of Music and He has been a lecturer for artistic organ playing at the Rostock Theater since 2000.

As an organ expert for the Pomeranian Evangelical Church and as a founding member of the "Baltic Organ Center" in Stralsund, Rost has accompanied the restoration and reconstruction of more than 80 historical organs. An international concert career has taken him to various European countries and the USA. Numerous CD recordings, radio and television recordings are dedicated to the organ landscape of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania and the Baltic States. In 2013, together with Krzysztof Urbaniak, he published the choral variations by Gdańsk composer Daniel Magnus Gronau and in 2015 his registration instructions, which represent the largest surviving collection of registrations from the 18th century.
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2) Martin Rost (* 1962 in Lübeck) is a German book author and employee of the Independent State Center for Data Protection Schleswig-Holstein (ULD). He is also the author of the harmonica textbook Rock Blues Country Harp. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.