Cellist Keira Fullerton was appointed to the position of associate principal cello of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in January, 2025. Formerly, she had been the FWSO’s assistant principal cello since 2008 and was an adjunct professor of cello at the University of Texas at Arlington from 2015-2020. In the spring of 2023, she served as visiting cello professor for six weeks at Baylor University. Before joining the FWSO, she held the position of assistant principal with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in Winnipeg, Manitoba for three seasons. She has also performed as an extra musician with the Houston, Pittsburgh, and Seattle Symphonies. She spent three summers as a participant in the Crested Butte Music Festival and has also performed with the Colorado Music Festival during the 2017-2019 summer seasons. She has been playing with Music in the Mountains summer music festival in Durango, Colorado since 2019.

A native of Ohio, Fullerton moved to Toronto, Ontario at age eleven, where she studied both piano and cello at the Royal Conservatory of Music. She then earned her Bachelor of Music degree at Rice University as a student of Desmond Hoebig and received her Master of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music studying with Stephen Geber. She lives in North Arlington with her husband, two children, and large dog.