A group from the internationally renowned Marlboro Music Festival will make a stop in Ames on Sunday as part of a national tour.

The event will be hosted by Ames Town and Gown, a local chamber music association.

“The name Marlboro is almost synonymous with the name of chamber music,” said Paula Forrest, artistic director of Ames Town and Gown.

“We expect it to be wonderful,” she said.

The Marlboro Music Festival brings both young and professional musicians from around the nation and world to the small town of Marlboro, Vt. each summer.

Selected works are then taken on tour. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Pianist Peter Serkin are former Marlboro musicians.

The quintet coming to Ames will feature Peter Stumpf, the principal cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, along with four younger artists: Agustin Hadelich and Karina Canellakis on violins, Romie de Guise-Langlois on clarinet and Sebastian Krunnies on viola.

“Marlboro brings combinations you wouldn’t always hear,” Forrest said.

She added it was unique to hear strings and clarinet together.

The quintet will perform classical chamber music masterpieces from Brahms, Haydn and Kodaly.

Forrest said Ames Town and Gown strives to bring such smaller, more intimate performances to Ames.

The evening will also feature vocal performances by Jesse Blumberg,  Deborah Selig  and Cameron Stowe.

Stumpf will give a free class to local musicians in addition to performing in the concert, and the quintet will also make a stop at Ames High School.

This is the first time the Musicians from Marlboro have visited Ames, but they expect to return to the town five times over the next 10 years.

The premiere event is part of Town and Gown’s 60th season.

The anniversary season will come to a close on April 24 with a performance of the Ames Piano Quartet.