Isaac is currently embarking on 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 will be released in their pairings with Gallay’s Caprices on two commercial discs. Dai Fujikura’s ele was released commercially in 2022 in 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 given lecture recitals and presentations, on the pieces as part of Royal Academy of Music’s public research event as well as in conferences such as the 12th Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900, hosted by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and the AEC’s European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (EPARM) 2022, hosted by Royal Academy of Music, London, UK and EPARM 2024, hosted by Academy of Music, Ljubljana, Slovenia. A chapter on the collaboration with Dai Fujikura has been submitted for publication in Living Music, a new book series of academic essays dedicated to contemporary music for Routledge edited by Xenia Pestova Bennett and Christopher Dingle. His contribution in the upcoming In Conversation: Dance and Silence, as part of Society for Dance Research’s Dance in Dialogue Book series draws heavily on my exploration of Michael Finnissy’s Six Caprices for natural horn (2021-2022).

Isaac is also extremely passionate in interdisciplinary research. He has started researching on the transferrable skillsets between artistic creative practice and team sports performance. He is also interested in exploring the relationship between music and people living with disabilities, and how music and arts can become a vehicle for understanding disability, a vehicle for changing social perceptions of disability, and a vehicle for healing.