Thuthuka Sibisi’s musical education began at the world-renowned Drakensberg Boy’s Choir School. He subsequently went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Music at Stellenbosch University in 2011. Alongside his music studies he completed studies in Physical Theatre and Movement with Sam Prigge and Estelle Olivier (Stellenbosch). He is a graduate of the MA (Performance Making) program at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Thuthuka has toured extensively, performing throughout South Africa as well as Asia, Europe and the Americas. Other engagements include Chorus Master for UCT Opera School: Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims and Four:30 - South African Operas. Visual collaborations include work with Johannesburg-based photographer and sculptor, Jake Singer, on Joburg City Hustle (2015) and Intersections To This City (2014) - presented at Sustainable Empires (Venice, Italy) and Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art (USA). Other exhibition work includes the performance installation Extracts from The Underground (2013) - presented in collaboration with the Institute for Creative Arts, Cape Town. This installation was later presented at Wits Art Museum in 2014 as part of The Migrant Journey Series. In 2016 the sound and image installation The African Choir 1891 Re-imagined was presented as part of the Black Chronicles Archive Laboratory at Autograph (London), curated by Reneé Mussai and presented at the University of Johannesburg’s FADA Gallery (Johannesburg, RSA), Iziko South African Museum (Cape Town, RSA) and The Apartheid Museum (Johannesburg, RSA). Recent collaborations in film include Ixhala (dir. Zandile Tisani) and Lamentations (dir. Boris Gerrets).

In 2016 Thuthuka made his Italian debut as Music Director and composer (alongside Philip Miller) for William Kentridge’s Triumphs and Laments (Rome, Italy). Further projects include a commission by Cape Town Opera for Musiquées Sacrée d’Afrique et d’Europe, in residence at Festival International d’Aix-en-Provence (France). He has an ongoing collaboration with Philip Miller and William Kentridge as both musical director and composer for The Head and The Load which premiered at London’s The Tate Modern (UK, 2018) subsequently touring to Park Avenue Armory (NYC), Holland Festival (Netherlands) and the Ruhrtriennale (Germany). In 2020, Thuthuka composed Lakutshon’ilanga, commissioned by the Dutch National Opera (Netherlands).

Currently Thuthuka is co-creating Broken Chord alongside choreographer and dancer, Gregory Maqoma to premier at Grec Festival de Barcelona (Spain), Théâtre de la Ville (France), Kunstfest Weimar (Germany), St Pölten Festpielhaus (Austria), Torinodanza Festival/Teatro Stabile di Torino - Teatro Nazionale Festival Aperto / Fondazione I Teatri – Reggio Emilia (Italy), Stanford Live at Stanford University (USA). He is a recipient of the Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans (2017, RSA), Ampersand Foundation Fellow (2018, NYC), American Academy in Berlin resident (2019, Germany), Bushwick Center resident (2019, NYC) Goethe Institut resident fellow (2019, Germany) and Performa Curatorial Fellow (2019, NYC).

Thuthuka is currently a Phd Fellow with Race:Gender:Class at the University of Johannesburg (UJ).