Composer Guo Wenjing has been, since the 1980s, a leading avant-garde composer in China. As the only major composer of CCOM's legendary Class'77 who has no overseas education experience, he won international acclaim, in the 1990s, for several Chinese language operas, and has been widely influential since. Adhering to spreading and promoting Chinese works, the BMF has produced and performed many important works of Guo since 2003, including domestic premieres of his three operas: The Poet Li Bai, Diary of a Mad Man, and Banquet, as well as the trilogy Heroines. With modern Western techniques, Guo's music captures his sensitive perception of the sensibilities and customs of contemporary China. His music goes beyond images and tries to explore and achieve complex thoughts and feelings. These works, different as they are, all reveals the composer's pursuit of an emotional depth and philosophical profundity comparable to Beethoven, Brahms and Shostakovich, as well as his strenuous reflection on history and humanity.