Mandy Joy Isaacson is a violist, teacher, and scholar from Bloomington, Minnesota, USA. She completed her undergraduate degree in viola performance at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota and spent a year as a research fellow at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her primary teachers include Sally Chisholm, Mary Budd Horozaniecki, and Korey Konkol. She enjoys researching when she's not teaching or performing. Recently, her scholarship on Brahms’ Sonata op. 120 is published in the Journal of the American Viola Society summer 2017.