Coming to Andrew College from Bainbridge College (Bainbridge, Georgia), Mr. Roste holds three degrees: a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Augustana University College, a Bachelor of Theological Studies from the Canadian Lutheran Bible Institute (both Lutheran-affiliated schools in Camrose, Alberta, Canada), and a Master of Music specializing in Choral Conducting from the University of Alberta in Edmonton. 

He has sung with eight different professional choirs, most notably Pro Coro Canada, including regular radio appearances on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France.  In 2001 he spearheaded the Holocaust Memorial Project, which involved instituting an original composition competition for university students based on the poetry of various Holocaust survivors, recruiting and rehearsing the choir, and conducting the performance at an emotional Yom HaShoah (Day of the Holocaust) service at the Jewish Community Center in Edmonton. 

The winner of over 30 different awards and the composer of more than a dozen compositions, he has set foot on five continents (and lived on four of them).  The author of over twenty articles, he has also recently seen the publication of his first monograph, entitled The Xenophobe’s Guide to the Canadians, by Oval Books in London, England, which is already in its second printing.