About Aya Strauss

Aya Strauss is a percussion designer and educator who currently lives and works in Torrance, California. Inspired by her upbringing in the southern California percussion scene, Aya strives to realize her dual passions for creative and emotionally striking musical composition, and humanistic and effective education.

Aya currently works with Broken City Percussion as a front ensemble instructor and audio technician, and is the percussion director and arranger at Woodbridge HS, and battery caption head/arranger at Mira Costa HS. She has worked with many independent ensembles such as the Blue Knights Drum & Bugle Corps, Pacific Crest Drum & Bugle Corps, and Gold Indoor Percussion and Drum & Bugle Corps, as well as many scholastic programs in Southern California. She creates full indoor percussion shows, as well as arranging battery, front ensemble, and sound design, for programs throughout the country.

Aya is currently studying music composition through the Berklee College of Music online degree program. She attended UCLA from 2014-2018, where she received a degree with honors in cognitive science. Aya is a proud member of the Vic Firth educational team.