WAVERLY, IA (11/04/2015)(readMedia)-- Fourteen Wartburg College students were selected for the 2015 Iowa Collegiate Honor Band.

The band will perform Friday, Nov. 20, 2:30 p.m., in the Nevada High School auditorium. The performance, held in conjunction with the Iowa Music Educators Association Conference, is free and open to the public.

Participants include :

Allison Coe of Dixon

Anthony Skinner of Davenport

The band represents the best collegiate band students from across the state, with nominations coming from 19 community colleges, colleges and universities.

Craig Hancock, Wartburg's director of bands, said the selection process is often weighted toward music majors because of the partnership with IMEA.

"The fact that several of the Wartburg students are not music majors speaks highly of our training at the college and the experiences they receive here," he said.

Wartburg was one of only three schools that had all of its nominees selected for the honor.

Wartburg, a four-year liberal arts college internationally recognized for community engagement, enrolls 1,537 students. Wartburg is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and named after the castle in Germany where Martin Luther took refuge disguised as a knight during the stormy days of the Reformation while translating the Bible from Greek into German.