We are happy to announce that Dutch musician Herman van Veen has extended his exclusive worldwide publishing deal with UMPG.

Born in Utrecht, he grew up as the only boy in a working-class family and studied violin, singing and music pedagogy at the Utrecht Conservatory. He made his theatrical debut in 1965 with the musical, Harlequin. Since then he has traveled all over the world, performing in four languages. He was the creator of Alfred Jodocus Kwak, a courageous little duck from Waterland who became world-famous thanks to a 52 episode television series.

He has recorded 175 CDs, 21 DVDs, some seventy-odd books, scenarios for, among others, the feature-length films, 'Uit Elkaar'  and 'Nachtvlinder'.

He received a Golden Camera (for Alfred Jodocus Kwak), a Silver Bear (Berlin Film Festival), nine Edisons, the 2002 Radio 2 National Air Play Award, the Prix d’Humanité, Le Prix Charles Cros for Literary Music 2003 for his theatre show and CD Chapeau, Le Prix de l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie 2003 for his CD Chapeau and several awards at The International tv and Film Festival in New York. On March 14, 2010 Herman received the Edison Collected Work Award for his vast body of work and outstanding contributions to Dutch music.

In 2016 he also won the Lennaert Nijgh Award at the Buma Awards, as acknowledgement for all the songs he has written.