Matthias Beckert has been director and conductor of the Monteverdi Choir Würzburg since 1998.  In 2002 he founded the Monteverdi Ensemble Würzburg.  He performs internationally with renowned vocal ensemble Cantabile Regensburg, which he has been directing since 2002.  He has conducted numerous premieres and is particularly involved in contemporary choral music and historical performance practice.  Beckert has directed numerous premieres in close collaboration with composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki,  Wolfram Buchenberg, Zsolt Gárdonyi and Heinz Werner Zimmermann.  In appreciation, Zimmermann dedicated his choral work "I got a robe” and Gárdonyi dedicated his composition “ One day with the Lord is like a thousand years” to Matthias Beckert.

As a part of the Würzburg Mozart Festival 2006, Beckert conducted the anniversary concert with works by the festival’s founder, Hermann Zilcher. The city of Würzburg praised Matthias Beckert for producing such continually excellent and high standard performance over many years by awarding him the cultural medal.  He was also honored by the Bavarian Radio Choir at the choral conducting forum in Munich in 2007. In the same year he was appointed choir director of the Suhler Singakademie and the long-standing Suhler Boys Choir. In 2008 he was invited to take part in the International Bachwoche Stuttgart, conducting the Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart.