Linda Rose is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music where she was a scholarship student of Ivan Galamian and Dorothy Delay. Her early training was with Manuel Compinsky. Ms. Rose has been on the applied violin faculty at California State University Long Beach for nine years. She participates in faculty concerts and has arranged major master classes for the students. She also teaches and performs at international music festivals in the summer, including the Niagara International Chamber Music Festival and International School for Musical Arts; the International Academy of Music, St. Petersburg, Russia and Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, Italy and the Summit Music Festival in New York.

Her students have won first prize in the Bronislaw Kaper Competition of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pasadena Showcase Competition, Brentwood and Culver City Competitions and the Colman Chamber Music Competition among others. Many have gone on to major conservatories, such as Julliard, New England, and the Manhattan School, as well as Northwestern University, where Ms. Rose was invited in April of 2006 to give master classes by Roland and Almita Vamos.

She plays with the West Hills Trio. They recently performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra.

Linda Rose played in the Los Angeles Philharmonic under conductors Carlo Maria Giulini and Zubin Mehta among other. She has also played in the Pasadena Symphony, California Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera Orchestra. She was concertmaster and soloist of the Long Beach Bach Festival Orchestra for 11 years under David Wilson. She has recorded with them for Alpine Records.

Ms. Rose served as advisor to the Indianapolis International Violin Competition for the Eli Lilly Foundation.
She wrote "Progressive scale studies" published by Neil A. Kjos, which is widely used.

Currently she is Professor of Violin at the California State University, Long Beach.