 Arditti has been responsible for having given the world premières of a number of large scale works specially written for him.These include Iannis Xenakis' "Dox Orkh" and Toshio Hosokawa's "Landscape III," both for violin and orchestra, as well as Brian Ferneyhough's "Terrain," Luca Francesconi's "Riti Neurali" and "Body Electric," James Dillon's "Vernal Showers," Jonathan Harvey's "Scena," Brice Pauset's "Vita Nova," Roger Reynolds "Aspiration" and Salvatore Sciarrino's "Le Stagioni Artificiali" all for violin and ensemble.He has also been responsible for the creation of many solo works including both of 
Ferneyhough's solo violin works, "Intermedio" and "Unsichtbare Farben."