Canton of Valais honors Incolore and van der Woude
The Canton of Valais is awarding two sponsorship prizes, each worth 10,000 francs, to the singer and composer Nuit Incolore and the film music composer Ellen van der Woude.
Nuit Incolore was born in Vietnam in 2001 under the real name Théo Marclay and grew up in Saxon. His song "Dépassé" became the diamond single in France and was therefore selected for French television channel TF1's Chanson of the Year 2023. Nuit Incolore also won the French-language Discovery of the Year category at the NRJ Music Awards 2023, the first Swiss artist to win the award since its inception. In 2024, he was nominated in the "Victoires de la musique" in the male discovery category. As part of his tour this year, he will be performing at Sion sous les étoiles, the Paléo Festival and the Olympia.
Ella van der Woude was born in Sion in 1987. At the age of 18, she moved to Holland, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts at the Amsterdam Conservatory in 2010 and a Master of Music in film music composition in 2014. In addition to compositions for the cinema, she released the album "Solo Piano" in 2020. In October 2022, she was the first woman ever to receive the Dutch "Golden Calf" award, an equivalent to the French César, for the best film music for "Moloch" by Nico van den Brink. In May 2024, the film "Armand" by Norwegian director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, for which she produced the soundtrack, won the prize for Best Sound Creation and the Golden Camera at the Cannes Film Festival.
