Griggs Music-Cedar Rapids
3913 Center Point Road NE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
(319) 294-1999
Store Hours
Monday-Thursday 11- 6
Friday 11-4
Saturday 10-4
*Family oriented
*Service centered
*Personalized service
*No appointment needed
Griggs Music has provided Eastern Iowa and Northwest Illinois with excellence in musical instrument sales and service since 1903.
In 2002 we began providing weekly service to Cedar Rapids area schools and in 2010 we opened our unique and friendly shop on Center Point Road. We invite you to visit our store to see the great selection of beginning band and orchestra instruments and to speak with our knowledgeable and experienced sales representatives who are also talented musicians! Stop by soon. Let’s talk music!
Double bassist and electric bassist Richard Wagor currently lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mr. Wagor, in earning his BA in music from the University of Iowa and a MM from Manhattan School of Music, has worked with various teachers including Eldon Obrecht, Diana Gannett, Homer Mensch, and Robert Kassinger.
Mr. Wagor has also performed in a wide variety of professional settings; orchestrally as a member of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, as principal bassist with the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, and as both assistant principal and principal bassist with the Dubuque Symphony.
Additionally, Richard has performed as a substitute bassist with the Des Moines Symphony, Orchestra Iowa, the Quad Cities Symphony, the Illinois Symphony, The Arkansas Symphony, the Brazos Valley Symphony, the Delta Symphony, the Kenosha Symphony, the Austin (Texas) Symphony, and others.
Mr. Wagor has also played other genres of music with Foreigner, Bobby McFerrin, Sutton Foster, Sachal Vasandani, Five by Design, Leni Stern, Adam Schroeder, Love is Here to Stay: A Gershwin Experience, the Five Seasons Jazz Trio, the Roots of Rhythm Trio, Pat Smith, Jennifer Lee, Tim Daugherty, the Yale Repertory Theater, NOWIS, the Bill Shepherd Big Band, the Rod Pierson Not-So-Big Band, Ben Schmidt, Peter Hart, and the Bernemann Brothers Band to mention a few.
As a teacher, Mr. Wagor has formerly held positions with the University of Northern Iowa; the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp; Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa; The Eastern Iowa Arts Academy; and teaches at the Cedar Rapids based Five Seasons Chamber Music Festival each June.
Clayton Kwater Is a Marion High School graduate who is currently pursuing a degree in music education. He is attends Kirkwood Community College with plans of transferring to The University Of Northern Iowa to finish his degree. His primary instrument is saxophone, but can also play clarinet, and in the process of obtaining his degree he will be learning many more. While attending Marion High School Clayton was very involved in the music program, and was particularly involved in the jazz band. He was accepted into the 3A Allstate Jazz band in 2015, and played in The North Corridor Jazz Band the summer after. Currently he can be seen playing with the Kirkwood Jazz, and chamber ensembles playing everything from alto to bari.
