Sirkka Numminen

	Dr.; Sirkka Auli Numminen Kosk; PhD
	Composer-in-Residence, Uralican Symphony Orchestra
	Incumbent
	Assumed office; 1 May 2010
Serving with	Ruslan Kamyshin
Preceded by	Jarkko Salomäki
Composer-in-Residence, Syktyvkar Philharmonic Orchestra
	In office; 31 March 2008 – 1 May 2010
Succeeded by	Valtteri Harjanne
Chair of the School of Music, Uralikan Yliopisto
	Incumbent
	Assumed office; 1 January 2009
Preceded by	Timofey Rubenstein
Born	25 August 1977; Joensuu, Finland
Spouse	Martin Kosk
Children	none
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg Conservatory
Religion	Uralican Evangelical Baptist Christian

Sirkka Auli Numminen Kosk, MMus, PhD (b. 25 August 1977 in Joensuu, then Finland) is a Uralican composer, and is one of the two official composers-in-residence for the Uralican Symphony Orchestra, for which she also plays piano. She joined the USO after Jarkko Salomäki gave up his position as composer-in-residence, having previously been affiliated with the Syktyvkar Philharmonic Orchestra.

Biography and Musical Background[]

As a child, Sirkka's father, Yrjö Numminen, noticed that his child had a particularly good ear for music and would hum classical melodies of Sibelius that he had been playing on his record player, without missing a note. So at the age of four, he enrolled her in piano lessons, in which she excelled so quickly that she began doing concerts at the age of six.

She took an interest in other instruments as well as a child, beginning to play the clarinet at age eight, the cello at age nine, and the soprano saxophone at age thirteen. So great was her talent that the government of Finland offered to cover the rent for her instruments.

Always a presence in her high-school band, she also enrolled at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki not long after her 14th birthday, where she would spend her weekends honing her craft in various different forms of music - she would play the traditional classics with her cello, concert-band numbers on her clarinet, solo pieces on piano, and jazz on her soprano saxophone, and she wowed all her teachers - at high school and Sibelius - in doing so.

Since she began learning theory at a young age due to part of her piano training, she had already begun composing her own music, but her composition skills blossomed as she learned about the Neo-Classicist stylings of Igor Stravinsky, Gustav Holst, and John Williams. Her first symphony (Salo) was published in 1992 when she wasn't quite 15 years of age, and a performance of it by the Ylioppilaskunnan Soittajat in Helsinki got a standing ovation on its first performance.

She would publish two more symphonies before her graduation from high school in 1995. Immediately she had conservatories from around the world begging her to study at their institute, but for financial reasons, she chose the vaunted St. Petersburg Conservatory. It was there that she first met her long-time lyricist, Salma Hallik, and within a year she had penned the music to the opera Pyhä Uhraus ("Holy Sacrifice") with the words (in Finnish) being provided by the Estonian Hallik.

In mid-2000 she finished her BMus degree and immediately applied to begin work on her MMus, which, with her rigorous composition and performance schedule on top of study, would last her until late 2007 - well into the Robertian Era. She became a well-known cellist in the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, but was also tapped for her piano skills and the occasional jazz concert.

Always proud of her Finnish heritage, she became enticed by the Uralicist movement in early-and-mid-2008 and moved to Syktyvkar in Uralica, with Hallik soon following, and she immediately began work in helping set up Uralica's music education system, which in June 2008 earned her the first honorary PhD given by Uralikan Yliopisto for music.

The landscape of northern Uralica was the direct inspiration for her famous Seventh Symphony, "Aro", which was declared a "national treasure" by Uralican Tribal Chief Jarkko Salomäki, not long before the publication of a famous religious tone-poem, Ylistä Kristus ("Praise Christ").

Coming in February 2009, her most famous symphony was inspired by the re-convention of Uralica after 3 months of constitutional hiatus. It is another piece that has been on heavy rotation since its publication, called Kotimani Uralikka ("Uralica, My Homeland"). She has penned two other symphonies since.

She is engaged to another famous Uralican composer, Estonian-born Livonian Post-Romantic Martin Kosk, and lived next door to him in Chit', a borough of Syktyvkar, until they married on 30 August 2010. Both are practicing Uralican Evangelical Baptist Christians. They now live together in the Parcheg district of Syktyvkar.

One noteworthy quirk about her musical classification is, while she numbers and titles her pieces in Finnish, the key signatures are always in English. She started doing this in St. Petersburg and applied it to her back catalogue as well, because she felt it would make her music easier to classify outside of Finnish-speaking nations.

Lists of Works[]

Nothing short of a fountainhead, Numminen, in her 25 or so years of composition has composed over 300 pieces of music - a rate of about one piece per month!

(Month of publishing given - English names in parentheses where applicable. Famous works are in bold type)

Symphonies[]

To this day, Numminen's most famous works are her symphonies, and although all eleven are revered in the Uralic classical tradition, the best known are her two longest, the Seventh and Ninth Symphonies. In her symphonic works she has a tendency to incorporate ethnic folk instruments into the various movements, like the balalaika and the dobro (which are in the Fourth Symphony), the 'ud (First Symphony), the kantele (Third, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symphonies), and Hungarian bagpipes (also Ninth Symphony). Being a cellist and a clarinettist, all eleven symphonies have at least one solo for both instruments.

Sinfonia nro 1, C minor, Salo ("Desert") - April 1992
Sinfonia nro 2, B major, Maa Järvein ("Land of Lakes") - August 1993
Sinfonia nro 3, D minor, Raju Talvi ("Fierce Winter") - February 1995
Sinfonia nro 4, F minor, Venäjan Tanssit ("Russia's Dances") - April 1996
Sinfonia nro 5, D-flat major, Rakkaani ("My Love") - March 2002
Sinfonia nro 6, G major, Nimetön ("The Untitled Symphony") - January 2007
Sinfonia nro 7, G-sharp minor, Aro ("Tundra") - April 2008
Sinfonia nro 8, E minor, Sotansinfonia ("Symphony Of War") - September 2008
Sinfonia nro 9, C major, Kotimani Uralikka ("Uralica, My Homeland") - February 2009
Sinfonia nro 10, F major, Jeesus, Pelastajani ("Jesus, My Redeemer") - March 2010
Sinfonia nro 11, A minor, Autiomaissa ("In The Wastelands") - October 2010

Operas[]

Sirkka Numminen isn't the first person that comes to mind when it comes to Finnish Opera, however she has contributed to it somewhat, producing five of her six operas in Finnish (the other was in English).

(All lyrics by Salma Hallik except where noted otherwise)

Pyhä Urhaus ("Holy Sacrifice") - June 1996
Kaleva - March 1999
Hippomenes ja Atalanta - November 2000
Ruutin Elämä ("The Life Of Ruth") - May 2004
Much Ado About Nothing (lyrics derived from William Shakespeare, by Adam Bogunskyy) - March 2007
Kahdestoista Tunti ("Twelfth Hour") - December 2008

Concerti[]

Piano Concerti[]

A noteworthy bit of trivia is that, up to the fall of 2010, Sirkka Numminen had only ever written one piano concerto in a minor key - her most famous one!

Pianokonsertto nro. 1 in F major - September 1991, her first piece after enrolling at the Sibelius Academy.
Pianokonsertto nro. 2 in E major - June 1992
Pianokonsertto nro. 3, Unohdettut ("The Forgotten Ones") in B minor - May 1993, probably her best-known piano concerto.
Pianokonsertto nro. 4 in A-flat major - January 1994
Pianokonsertto nro. 5 in F-sharp major - August 1995
Pianokonsertto nro. 6 in C major - February 1996
Pianokonsertto nro. 7 in B-flat major - December 1997
Pianokonsertto nro. 8 in D major - July 1998
Pianokonsertto nro. 9 in B major - October 1999
Pianokonsertto nro. 10 in E-flat major - March 2001
Pianokonsertto nro. 11 in G major - September 2004
Pianokonsertto nro. 12 in C-sharp major - June 2006
Pianokonsertto nro. 13 in A-major, 2010 - January 2010
Pianokonsertto nro. 14 in F-minor - September 2010

String Concerti[]

Cello[]

Sellokonsertto nro. 1 in D minor - October 1991
Sellokonsertto nro. 2 in F-sharp major - May 1992
Sellokonsertto nro. 3 in C minor - March 1994
Sellokonsertto nro. 4 in B-flat major' - June 1996
Sellokonsertto nro. 5 in C-sharp major - February 1997
Sellokonsertto nro. 6 in A minor - October 1997
Sellokonsertto nro. 7 in E major - March 2000
Sellokonsertto nro. 8 in F minor - April 2002
Sellokonsertto nro. 9 in C major - September 2007

Violin[]

Viulukonsertto nro. 1 in B major - May 1995
Viulukonsertto nro. 2 in F minor - July 1998
Viulukonsertto nro. 3 in E-flat major - August 2000
Viulukonsertto nro. 4 in C-sharp minor - December 2001
Viulukonsertto nro. 5 in A major - February 2003
Viulukonsertto nro. 6 in F-sharp major - November 2006

Harp[]

Harppukonsertto nro. 1 in G major - April 2001
Harppukonsertto nro. 2 in B minor - November 2003
Harppukonsertto nro. 3 in A-flat major - January 2005
Harppukonsertto nro. 4 in F-sharp minor - December 2005
Harppukonsertto nro. 5 in E-flat major - February 2008

Other Concerti[]

Mixing classical music and jazz, Numminen has penned about two dozen concerti for soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone, and "jazz flute." She has also written two clarinet concerti and co-written a bass-clarinet concerto with Jarkko Salomäki.

Soprano Saxophone[]

Sopraanosaksofonikonsertto nro. 1 in G major - April 1997
Sopraanosaksofonikonsertto nro. 2 in A minor - December 1997
Sopraanosaksofonikonsertto nro. 3 in B-flat major - January 1999
Sopraanosaksofonikonsertto nro. 4 in E-flat minor - August 2000
Sopraanosaksofonikonsertto nro. 5 in F-sharp major - February 2001
Sopraanosaksofonikonsertto nro. 6 in G-sharp minor - March 2002
Sopraanosaksofonikonsertto nro. 7 in C minor - June 2003
Sopraanosaksofonikonsertto nro. 8 in B major - November 2004
Sopraanosaksofonikonsertto nro. 9 in F minor - May 2006
Sopraanosaksofonikonsertto nro. 10 in A-flat major - June 2008

Tenor Saxophone[]

Kulkusaksofonikonsertto nro. 1 in B flat major - November 1998
Kulkusaksofonikonsertto nro. 2 in E flat minor - May 1999
Kulkusaksofonikonsertto nro. 3 in C major - February 2002
Kulkusaksofonikonsertto nro. 4 in F-sharp minor - July 2004
Kulkusaksofonikonsertto nro. 5 in E major - January 2009
Kulkusaksofonikonsertto nro. 6, Kesänkuumuus ("The Heat Of Summer") in A minor - July 2010

Alto Saxophone[]

Alttosaksofonikonsertto nro. 1 in A-flat major - June 1997
Alttosaksofonikonsertto nro. 2 in F major - March 1998
Alttosaksofonikonsertto nro. 3 in B minor - December 1999
Alttosaksofonikonsertto nro. 4 in D major - July 2000
Alttosaksofonikonsertto nro. 5 in E minor - October 2003
Alttosaksofonikonsertto nro. 6 in C-sharp major - September 2005
Alttosaksofonikonsertto nro. 7 in G minor - May 2006
Alttosaksofonikonsertto nro. 8 in F-sharp minor - January 2008

Flute[]

Jatsihuilukonsertto nro. 1, Perhoset ("Butterflies") in F major - June 2002
Jatsihuilukonsertto nro. 2 in A major - March 2004
Jatsihuilukonsertto nro. 3 in C-sharp minor - August 2005
Jatsihuilukonsertto nro. 4 in E major - October 2007
Jatsihuilukonsertto nro. 5 in D minor - August 2010

Clarinets[]

Klarinettikonsertto nro. 1 in F minor - August 1997
Klarinettikonsertto nro. 2 in A-flat major - March 2002
Salomäen-ja-Nummisenkonsertto in C-sharp major - June 2008 (for clarinet and bass clarinet)

Tone Poems[]

Critics of Numminen's work have argued that her best symphonic work is tone-poetry, something she showed a knack for early in her studies at Sibelius and continues to this day. As a matter of fact, some go so far as to say that Numminen is the quintessential tone-poet of the last 150 years.

Suomi ("Finland") - September 1995, her first piece written at SPC. In F major.
Ruotsi ("Sweden") - July 1997 (after a vacation to Sweden). In C major.
Brittiläinen Kolumbia ("British Columbia") - August 2000. In D minor.
Joulu ("Christmas") - December 2001. In F-sharp major.
Uskoni ("My Faith") - April 2004. In C minor.
Ylistä Kristus ("Praise Christ") - May 2008. In A major.
Tivinajoki ("The Tivina River") - March 2009. In E-flat major.
Uusimaa ("Novaja Zemlja" or "New Land") - September 2009. In A-sharp minor.
Kominmetsät ("Komi Forests") - June 2010. In F major.

Chamber Music[]

Numminen has published fifty-eight pieces of chamber music, primarily string quartets/quintets but also four violin sonatas and ten cello sonatas.

Violin Sonatas[]

Viulusonata nro. 1 in D major - June 1998
Viulusonata nro. 2 in G minor - May 2000
Viulusonata nro. 3 in A-sharp minor - July 2003
Viulusonata nro. 4 in C major - November 2004
Viulusonata nro. 5 in F-sharp major - April 2010

Cello Sonatas[]

Sellosonata nro. 1 in A major - June 1995
Sellosonata nro. 2 in F minor - October 1996
Sellosonata nro. 3 in G major - February 1998
Sellosonata nro. 4 in E-flat major - May 1999
Sellosonata nro. 5 in A-sharp minor - July 2000
Sellosonata nro. 6 in C-sharp major - December 2000
Sellosonata nro. 7 in B minor - April 2001
Sellosonata nro. 8 in F-sharp major - January 2003
Sellosonata nro. 9 in E minor - March 2005
Sellosonata nro. 10 in F major - August 2007

String Quartets[]

Jousikvartetto nro. 1 in A major, January 1995
Jousikvartetto nro. 2 in B-flat major, June 1995
Jousikvartetto nro. 3 in F minor, November 1995
Jousikvartetto nro. 4 in C-sharp major, April 1996
Jousikvartetto nro. 5 in D major, February 1997
Jousikvartetto nro. 6 in A-sharp minor, October 1997
Jousikvartetto nro. 7 in C major, March 1998
Jousikvartetto nro. 8 in E minor, August 1998
Jousikvartetto nro. 9 in C minor, May 1999
Jousikvartetto nro. 10 in F-sharp major, February 2000
Jousikvartetto nro. 11 in D minor, September 2000
Jousikvartetto nro. 12 in C-sharp minor, April 2001
Jousikvartetto nro. 13 in B major, July 2001
Jousikvartetto nro. 14, Muistomusiikki ("Memorial Music") in G minor, September 2001
Jousikvartetto nro. 15 in E-flat major - December 2001
Jousikvartetto nro. 16 in A-flat major - February 2002
Jousikvartetto nro. 17 in G-sharp minor - May 2002
Jousikvartetto nro. 18 in C-sharp major - August 2002
Jousikvartetto nro. 19 in A minor - October 2002
Jousikvartetto nro. 20 in E major - January 2003
Jousikvartetto nro. 21 in F-sharp major - March 2003
Jousikvartetto nro. 22 in C minor - June 2003
Jousikvartetto nro. 23 in F minor - August 2003
Jousikvartetto nro. 24 in G-sharp minor - November 2003
Jousikvartetto nro. 25 in C major - January 2004
Jousikvartetto nro. 26 in E major - April 2004
Jousikvartetto nro. 27 in A-sharp minor - October 2004
Jousikvartetto nro. 28 in F-sharp minor - March 2005
Jousikvartetto nro. 29 in E-flat minor - March 2006
Jousikvartetto nro. 30 in B-flat major - August 2006
Jousikvartetto nro. 31 in B minor - January 2007
Jousikvartetto nro. 32 in G major - May 2007
Jousikvartetto nro. 33 in C minor - October 2007
Jousikvartetto nro. 34 in D major - April 2008
Jousikvartetto nro. 35, Elpyminen ("Rebirth") in F major - December 2008
Jousikvartetto nro. 36 in F-sharp minor - February 2010

String Quintets[]

Numminen's Quintets would have an extra viola part written in.

Jousikvintetto nro. 1 in G major - January 1996
Jousikvintetto nro. 2 in C minor - March 1998
Jousikvintetto nro. 3 in C-sharp major - July 1999
Jousikvintetto nro. 4 in E major - April 2000
Jousikvintetto nro. 5 in B-flat major - November 2001
Jousikvintetto nro. 6 in A minor - August 2002
Jousikvintetto nro. 7 in F-sharp minor - May 2004
Jousikvintetto nro. 8 in D minor - February 2005
Jousikvintetto nro. 9 in F major - December 2007
Jousikvintetto nro. 10 in C major, Syksynyö ("An Autumn Night") - October 2009

Solo Piano Works[]

Sirkka Numminen began composing for solo piano when she was a mere child, with her first published composition coming when she was eight. Since then she has composed nearly two hundred solo pieces of various lengths for piano. She is probably best known for her "Seventy-Five Scherzi" - a corpus of work that spans a over a decade (the last in that group of scherzi was penned in 1999) - and her seven Études as far as Solo Piano goes. However she has also penned two dozen sonatas and numerous other solo works for piano. Her Kaksitoista Variaatiot from 2008-9 are all based on works by her now-fiancé, Martin Kosk.

When she was in grade school, she would often perform these in her free time, to the amazement of her peers.

Sonatas[]

Sonata nro. 1 in F major, Lempi ("Love") - February 1992
Sonata nro. 2 in F-sharp minor - July 1992
Sonata nro. 3 in E-flat major - December 1992
Sonata nro. 4 in A major - May 1993
Sonata nro. 5 in C major - July 1995
Sonata nro. 6 in A-sharp minor - March 1996
Sonata nro. 7 in G minor - May 1996
Sonata nro. 8 in C-sharp minor - December 1996
Sonata nro. 9 in B minor - February 1997
Sonata nro. 10 in E minor - April 1998
Sonata nro. 11 in A-flat major - August 1999
Sonata nro. 12, Tervetuloa Uusivuosituhantessa ("Welcome To The New Millennium") in B major - January 2000
Sonata nro. 13 in F minor - May 2001
Sonata nro. 14 in D major - March 2002
Sonata nro. 15 in G-sharp minor - August 2003
Sonata nro. 16 in A minor - January 2005
Sonata nro. 17 in F-sharp major - July 2005
Sonata nro. 18 in E major - May 2006
Sonata nro. 19 in D minor - January 2007
Sonata nro. 20 in C-sharp major - April 2008
Sonata nro. 21 in E-flat minor - December 2008
Sonata nro. 22 in G major - February 2009
Sonata nro. 23 in C minor - March 2009
Sonata nro. 24 in B-flat major - July 2009
Sonata nro. 25 in A-flat major - December 2009

Nocturnes[]

Nocturne nro. 1 in D major - February 1986
Nocturne nro. 2 in E minor - May 1988
Nocturne nro. 3 in F-sharp major - January 1991
Nocturne nro. 4 in C minor - May 1991
Nocturne nro. 5 in E-flat major - June 1992
Nocturne nro. 6 in B major - March 1993
Nocturne nro. 7 in A-flat major - August 1998
Nocturne nro. 8 in F major - March 2000
Nocturne nro. 9 in A minor - January 2003
Nocturne nro. 10 in D minor - May 2003
Nocturne nro. 11 in C major - January 2005
Nocturne nro. 12 in B-flat major - April 2008
Nocturne nro. 13 in F minor - October 2008
Nocturne nro. 14 in A major - February 2009
Nocturne nro. 15 in G minor - May 2009

Scherzi[]

The scherzo is the form of music Numminen has perfected the most, to the end that "Nummisenscherzo" has become a popular term for her particular type of scherzo in Robertian classical music. Of the solo piano works she has published, 125 of them (roughly 2/3 of them) have been scherzos.

Seitsemäntoistaviisi Scherzoa ("The Seventy-Five Scherzos")[]

Scherzo nro. 1, Leikkihetki ("Playtime") in C major - January 1986
Scherzo nro. 2 in F minor - March 1986
Scherzo nro. 3 in B-flat major - May 1986
Scherzo nro. 4 in F-sharp minor - December 1986
Scherzo nro. 5 in C major - May 1987
Scherzo nro. 6 in E-flat major - September 1987
Scherzo nro. 7 in D major - January 1988
Scherzo nro. 8 in E minor - April 1988
Scherzo nro. 9 in A-sharp minor - July 1988
Scherzo nro. 10 in C-sharp minor - December 1988
Scherzo nro. 11 in A-flat major - March 1989
Scherzo nro. 12 in G-sharp minor - August 1989
Scherzo nro. 13 in D minor - December 1989
Scherzo nro. 14, Kissat ("Kitties") in F major - February 1990
Scherzo nro. 15 in C-sharp major - April 1990
Scherzo nro. 16 in B major - May 1990
Scherzo nro. 17 in F-sharp minor - July 1990
Scherzo nro. 18 in C minor - August 1990
Scherzo nro. 19 in E major - October 1990
Scherzo nro. 20 in B-flat major - December 1990
Scherzo nro. 21 in F-sharp major - January 1991
Scherzo nro. 22 in B minor - March 1991
Scherzo nro. 23 in A-flat major - May 1991
Scherzo nro. 24 in C major - June 1991
Scherzo nro. 25 in E-flat minor - August 1991
Scherzo nro. 26 in D major - October 1991
Scherzo nro. 27 in G minor - January 1992
Scherzo nro. 28 in F major - March 1992
Scherzo nro. 29 in E major - May 1992
Scherzo nro. 30 in G major - August 1992
Scherzo nro. 31 in A-sharp minor - October 1992
Scherzo nro. 32 in C minor - November 1992
Scherzo nro. 33 in F-sharp minor - January 1993
Scherzo nro. 34 in A major - March 1993
Scherzo nro. 35 in C-sharp minor - May 1993
Scherzo nro. 36 in D major - June 1993
Scherzo nro. 37 in G minor - August 1993
Scherzo nro. 38 in B minor - September 1993
Scherzo nro. 39 in E-flat major - December 1993
Scherzo nro. 40 in F major - February 1994
Scherzo nro. 41 in A-flat major - April 1994
Scherzo nro. 42 in C minor - June 1994
Scherzo nro. 43 in G major - August 1994
Scherzo nro. 44 in B-flat major - October 1994
Scherzo nro. 45 in F minor - December 1994
Scherzo nro. 46 in C major - March 1995
Scherzo nro. 47 in F-sharp major - May 1995
Scherzo nro. 48 in A-sharp minor - July 1995
Scherzo nro. 49 in E major - August 1995
Scherzo nro. 50 in C-sharp major - October 1995
Scherzo nro. 51 in G minor - December 1995
Scherzo nro. 52 in B-flat major - March 1996
Scherzo nro. 53 in F-sharp major - June 1996
Scherzo nro. 54 in A minor - August 1996
Scherzo nro. 55 in C-sharp minor - October 1996
Scherzo nro. 56 in E-flat minor - November 1996
Scherzo nro. 57 in D major - February 1997
Scherzo nro. 58 in F minor - March 1997
Scherzo nro. 59 in D minor - May 1997
Scherzo nro. 60 in E major - July 1997
Scherzo nro. 61 in F-sharp minor - August 1997
Scherzo nro. 62 in C-sharp major "Tanssi" ("A Dance") - October 1997
Scherzo nro. 63 in A major - December 1997
Scherzo nro. 64 in A-sharp minor - February 1998
Scherzo nro. 65 in E minor - April 1998
Scherzo nro. 66 in B major - May 1998
Scherzo nro. 67 in G minor - August 1998
Scherzo nro. 68 in F major - September 1998
Scherzo nro. 69 in B-flat major - December 1998
Scherzo nro. 70 in E-flat major - January 1999
Scherzo nro. 71 in A minor - March 1999
Scherzo nro. 72 in C minor - June 1999
Scherzo nro. 73 in G major - August 1999
Scherzo nro. 74 in F minor - September 1999
Scherzo nro. 75, "Jatkuvasti Nuori" ("Forever Young") in D major - December 1999

Other Scherzos[]

Scherzo nro. 76 in C major - March 2000
Scherzo nro. 77 in F minor - May 2000
Scherzo nro. 78 in A major - June 2000
Scherzo nro. 79 in A-sharp minor - August 2000
Scherzo nro. 80 in B-flat major - October 2000
Scherzo nro. 81 in E minor - December 2000
Scherzo nro. 82 in F-sharp minor - February 2001
Scherzo nro. 83 in G major - March 2001
Scherzo nro. 84 in C-sharp minor - April 2001
Scherzo nro. 85 in F-sharp major - May 2001
Scherzo nro. 86 in G-sharp minor - July 2001
Scherzo nro. 87 in A minor - September 2001
Scherzo nro. 88 in E major - December 2001
Scherzo nro. 89 in B minor - January 2002
Scherzo nro. 90 in C-sharp major - April 2002
Scherzo nro. 91 in F major - June 2002
Scherzo nro. 92 in G minor - August 2002
Scherzo nro. 93 in B-flat major - September 2002
Scherzo nro. 94 in A-flat major - November 2002
Scherzo nro. 95 in E-flat minor - December 2002
Scherzo nro. 96 in A minor - January 2003
Scherzo nro. 97 in B major - April 2003
Scherzo nro. 98 in E minor - June 2003
Scherzo nro. 99 in G major - September 2003
Scherzo nro. 100 in C minor - November 2003
Scherzo nro. 101 in F major - December 2003
Scherzo nro. 102 in A major - February 2004
Scherzo nro. 103 in A-sharp minor - April 2004
Scherzo nro. 104 in G-sharp minor - June 2004
Scherzo nro. 105 in B-flat major - September 2004
Scherzo nro. 106 in E minor - December 2004
Scherzo nro. 107 in G minor - March 2005
Scherzo nro. 108 in C-sharp major - May 2005
Scherzo nro. 109 in A major - July 2005
Scherzo nro. 110, Uusialkut ("New Beginnings") in F-sharp major - January 2006
Scherzo nro. 111 in C major - March 2006
Scherzo nro. 112 in D minor - June 2006
Scherzo nro. 113 in F minor - August 2006
Scherzo nro. 114 in E major - November 2006
Scherzo nro. 115 in D major - May 2007
Scherzo nro. 116 in F-sharp minor - August 2007
Scherzo nro. 117, Uralikkalainen Scherzo ("The Uralican Scherzo") in G major - June 2008
Scherzo nro. 118 in B major - August 2008
Scherzo nro. 119 in B minor - November 2008
Scherzo nro. 120 in C-sharp minor - April 2009
Scherzo nro. 121 in E minor - May 2009
Scherzo nro. 122 in A-flat major - August 2009
Scherzo nro. 123 in F major - November 2009
Scherzo nro. 124 in C major - June 2010
Scherzo nro. 125 in G-minor - September 2010

Études[]

Sirkka Numminen's skill with the piano at such a young age was reflected in the sheer complexity of the seven études she wrote. In Uralican advanced piano education, these are often used as final exam pieces, and outside of Uralica they are regarded as her finest work for piano.

Étude nro. 1 in G major - July 1987
Étude nro. 2 in F minor - August 1987
Étude nro. 3 in E-flat major - April 1988
Étude nro. 4 in B major - September 1988
Étude nro. 5 in F-sharp major - May 1990
Étude nro. 6 in E-flat minor - July 1995
Étude nro. 7 in A major - March 1998

Others[]

Kevät ("Spring") - November 1985, Numminen's first published piece of music.
Kaksitoista Koskinteeman Variaatiot ("Twelve Variations On A Theme Of Kosk") - all published simultaneously, March 2009
- Koskinteeman Variaatio nro. 1, C major
- Koskinteeman Variaatio nro. 2, C-sharp major
- Koskinteeman Variaatio nro. 3, D minor
- Koskinteeman Variaatio nro. 4, E-flat major
- Koskinteeman Variaatio nro. 5, E minor
- Koskinteeman Variaatio nro. 6, F minor
- Koskinteeman Variaatio nro. 7, F-sharp major
- Koskinteeman Variaatio nro. 8, G major
- Koskinteeman Variaatio nro. 9, G-sharp minor
- Koskinteeman Variaatio nro. 10, A minor
- Koskinteeman Variaatio nro. 11, B-flat major
- Koskinteeman Variaatio nro. 12, B minor
Rondo nro. 1, Merirosvon Elämä ("A Pirate's Life") in D major - May 2000
Rondo nro. 2, Uralilainen Rondo ("Uralic Rondo") in G-sharp minor - June 2008

Trivia[]

Numminen is an admirer of many of her Uralican contemporaries' music - not just her husband's, but also that of Jarkko Salomäki, Adam Ovdeyev, Taavi Markkanen, Ferenc Sereny, Yoav Rubenstein, Ruslan Kamyshin, and many others. As far as composers from older generations are concerned, she is a self-proclaimed "Russoholic" when it comes to classical music, with Tchaikovsky, Anton Rubenstein, Aleksandr Borodin, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, and Igor Stravinsky all being inspirations of hers, plus she is also a fan of Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Robert Schumann, and J.S. Bach.
Her favourite non-Biblical authors include Mäkelä, Perttunen, Kaarle Rasimus (a Uralican psycho-thriller writer), and Matti Koppinen.
Her favourite sport is tennis. She also admitted a slight crush on hockey player Sami Salo when she was younger.