Isaac completed a practice-led artistic research project as part of his PhD at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where his research focuses are on the collaborative processes and dynamics between composers and performers and the facilitation of learning within organic environments. As part of his research, he has produced four videos exploring the technical and musical capabilities of the natural horn as a reference for composers and horn players. The commissions have received their premieres across a variety of performance events and platforms, and was released in their pairings with Gallay’s Caprices on a commercial album released by New Focus Recordings. Dai Fujikura’s ele was released commercially in 2022 on his album Aquarius, and his work was also published by Ricordi Berlin in 2021. Several of the other commissions have also been published or are in the process of being published by their respective publishers.

Isaac has also given lecture recitals and presentations on the pieces at Academy public research events, as well as in conferences such as the 12th Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900, the AEC’s European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (EPARM) 2022, hosted by Royal Academy of Music, London, and EPARM 2024, hosted by Academy of Music, Ljubljana, Slovenia, as well as at the Royal Musical Association 2025 Annual Conference and British Forum for Ethnomusicology/Royal Musical Association Research Students’ Conference in 2026. A chapter on the collaboration with Dai Fujikura has been submitted for publication in Living Music 1, a new book series of academic essays dedicated to contemporary music for Routledge edited by Xenia Pestova Bennett and Christopher Dingle.

Isaac’s other research area is in disability studies. His paper, The Sounding Body, Rethinking Clara Schumann through Disability Studies, was presented at the inaugural Women and Musical Histories, 1789-1914, hosted by Royal Academy of Music, London. His contribution in In Conversation: Dance and Silence, as part of Society for Dance Research’s Dance in Dialogue Book series draws heavily on his lived experience with disability and his embodied knowledge of the natural horn.