Rose began his
composing and conducting career in the late sixties, while still in college, as Assistant Music Conductor for
NBC's The Tonight Show starring
Johnny Carson, when the show was based in New York. One of his first television composing credits, beginning in 1976, was co-writing songs with lyricist
Judy Spencer for the
CBS television series,
Captain Kangaroo. In 1981, he composed the score for the television movie,
Thin Ice. In 1986, he was the composer for the ABC television
Dick Cavett Show.From 1990 to 1995 Rose was the composer for ABC television's ''
Ryan's Hope series and from 1990 to 1995 he was the composer for ABC’s All My Children'' series. Beginning in 2002, Rose composed scores for over a dozen
History Channel and
A&E Television documentaries and mini-series, including
Masada,
Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific,
The Presidents,
Remember the Alamo, and
In The Shadow Of Cold Mountain. In 1996, Rose began composing the scores for documentary films written and directed by Peter Jones. These include
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow,
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story,
Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times, and
Johnny Carson: King of Late Night. Earl can be seen performing his original music in such films as, No Hard Feelings, Sofia Coppola’s On the Rocks, Garry Marshall’s NewYear’s Eve, the Netfilx series,
Partner Track, and HBO’ s
Love Life. His music has been featured in many TV shows including
The Goldbergs,
Call Me Kat,
American Woman,
Shameless,
The Brave,
The Magicians,
Pan Am,
The West Wing,
ER,
Sex and the City. In 2008, he was the pianist for the TV special,
A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All, accompanying Elvis Costello,
Jon Stewart and
Stephen Colbert. Rose's other film score credits include
Mad Dog Time, directed by Larry Bishop, and original music featured in
About Schmidt,
White Oleander, and
Gunshy. He wrote the song arrangements for
The Object of My Affection. Rose's songwriting and recording credits include co-writing "Right From the Heart", recorded by
Johnny Mathis, "Every Beat of My Heart", co-written and recorded by
Brian McKnight, "I Found Love", co-written and recorded by
Peabo Bryson, and the Emmy Winning and platinum-selling song, "Love Is A Gift", recorded by
Olivia Newton-John and co-written with
Victoria Shaw and Olivia Newton-John. Rose has received numerous accolades for his music, including winning a
Daytime Emmy Award, 13 Emmy nominations, and a News and Documentary Emmy Award nomination. He has also won three
ASCAP awards for his music being the most performed on television. As a conductor and pianist, Rose's guest appearances have included the
Pacific Symphony,
Jacksonville Symphony, Corpus Christi Symphony,
Erie Philharmonic,
Lubbock Symphony and the San Angelo Symphony. In addition, during the 1990 to 1991 concert season, he performed in and conducted the Columbia Artist Festival's concert presentation,
The Irving Berlin Century, in 106 US cities. For the last twenty nine years he has performed a residency as a pianist in
Bemelmans Bar at the
Carlyle Hotel in New York City. ==Awards and nominations==