About Tollheit & Bio

Tollheit is a progressive rock musical project created by composer, arranger, producer and keyboardist Robert Doucette. It's a showcase of his original compositions and arrangements along with other miscellaneous projects.

Tollheit (pronounced: toll-hight) is a German word for madness.

Robert Doucette got into music at the age of 13 when he went through his father's CD collection one day and found a copy of Return To Forever's "Romantic Warrior". From then on, he was inspired to be a musician.

He started playing the guitar at 15 and became obsessed with jazz/rock fusion and progressive rock, and also fell in love with composing and arranging as well. His first album demo "Eureka" was released in 2003 when he was just 18, and he went on to record 5 more album demos. At age 19, he made the decision to take on the piano as his main instrument and has remand predominantly a keyboard player to this day.

After graduating high school in 2004, Robert went to Arizona State Univerity (ASU) to study piano performance, composition, music theory and recording engineering.

Due to personal issues in 2012, Robert had to take a 7 year hiatus from music. In 2019 he decided to resume his music career and went to set up his studio in the bedroom of his apartment. He then went to work on his first 2 official albums "Elementary" and "Paramount Dreams", which were actually his best works from his early demos.

"Elementary" was released in 2019, then "Paramount Dreams" in 2020, followed by "Atlas Of Limbo" and "Checkmate" in 2021. "Tales From The Cauldron" in 2022, followed by "Opera Circus" and "Melancholy Zen" In 2023. Since Robert is not a vocalist, all of these albums were fully instrumental.

However in 2024, Robert decided to add vocals in his music because of advances in AI. In August 2024 Robert released his 8th studio album "Bloody Sunday", followed by his 9th "Guilty Pleasures" in January 2025. These were the first two albums to be released with AI vocals. In November of 2025, Robert released the 10th studio album in the Tollheit series "Piper's Honey". He's currently working on more musical projects and is very optimistic and excited about the future and what lies ahead.