Top Artists Are Scheduled for SummerFest : Music: The annual festival in La Jolla again features an outstanding lineup of classical musicians and music.

Now in its seventh season, the La Jolla SummerFest continues to be an island of serious music-making in San Diego’s late-summer doldrums dominated by breezy pops programming.

By bringing in Andre Previn, Gary Hoffman, Cho-Liang (Jimmy) Lin and Yefim Bronfman, Artistic Director Heiichiro Ohyama has ensured the festival’s traditional performance standards.

In Previn, Ohyama has a SummerFest regular. The popular performer returns to play piano trios by Ravel and Debussy with violinist Julie Rosenfeld and cellist Gary Hoffman. RCA will record the trios in New York City when SummerFest concludes and will issue them on a compact disc. Previn will also be featured in Poulenc’s Sextet for piano and winds.

Overall, 24 artists are scheduled to appear from Aug. 14 to 30 in 10 Sherwood Auditorium concerts.

The Orion String Quartet will be this year’s resident ensemble, performing Bartok’s Fourth Quartet, Mozart’s “Dissonant” Quartet, K. 465, and Schoenberg’s “Verklarte Nacht” with violist Paul Neubauer and cellist Andres Diaz.

Ohyama will conduct the one chamber orchestra program, Aug. 23, which will feature violist Toby Hoffman in Hindemith’s “Trauermusik” and pianist David Golub in J.S. Bach’s Piano Concerto in D Minor.

Sponsored by the La Jolla Chamber Music Society, this year’s SummerFest will stress educational events, from its resident program and concerts for young professional musicians--the “rising stars” program--to masters classes and a pair of informal symposiums at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club with Previn and Golub. The traditional children’s concert, this year a puppet production of Edvard Grieg’s “Peer Gynt,” will be staged Aug. 16.

Following is the SummerFest’s performance schedule:

* Aug. 14, 8 p.m.: Rossini, Bartok and Brahms, featuring the Orion String Quartet.

* Aug. 16, 2 p.m.: Jim Gamble Puppets in Grieg’s “Peer Gynt.”

* Aug. 16, 7 p.m.: Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Schoenberg, featuring the Orion String quartet and pianist David Golub.

* Aug. 19, 8 p.m.: Mendelssohn and Brahms, featuring violinist Cho-Liang Lin and young rising stars.

* Aug. 21, 8 p.m.: Beethoven, Chopin, and Tchaikovsky, featuring pianist Yefim Bronfman and cellist Gary Hoffman.

* Aug. 22, 8 p.m.: Arensky, Shostakovich and Ravel, featuring pianist Andre Previn, violist Heiichiro Ohyama, and violinist Julie Rosenfeld.

* Aug. 23, 4 p.m.: Vivaldi, Telemann, Hindemith and J.S. Bach conducted by Heiichiro Ohyama.

* Aug. 26, 8 p.m.: Mozart, Prokofiev and Messiaen, featuring flutist Carol Wincenc and violist Toby Hoffman.

* Aug. 28, 8 p.m.: Schubert and Brahms with rising stars and cellist David Finckel.

* Aug. 29, 8 p.m.: Debussy, Poulenc, and Dvorak, featuring pianist Andre Previn and clarinetist David Shifrin.

* Aug. 30, 7 p.m.: Brahms and Spohr, featuring violinist Julie Rosenfeld, oboist Allan Vogel, and bassoonist Dennis Michel.