By George, he’s won it! 19th June 2013     Former Head Chorister at All Saints and later Organ Scholar, George Haynes, has been announced as the winner of this year’s Eton Choral Composition Competition.  George Haynes, 24, is currently a Lay Clerk at Peterborough Cathedral. A music graduate of the University of York, he has also been a Choral Scholar at York Minster and Wells Cathedral. Born in 1989, his musical life began as a chorister at All Saints’ Church in Northampton. His piece ‘O sacrum convivium’ was first performed at the General Synod Eucharist by the Choir of York Minster in 2010. Aside from cathedral duties, George pursues a career as a freelance singer, conductor and accompanist. Talking about his winning composition, Hymne to God, George described “a contemplative and restrained setting of John Donne’s words, perhaps a work of some tension but also one of praise.” George’s prize-winning composition will be sung as the Introit to Choral Evensong, to be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 on 17 July, alongside music by British composers Henry Purcell and Benjamin Britten.