William David Black (February 23, 1952 – December 10, 2003) was an American pianist and teacher.
He had a sister, Beverley, and a brother, the pianist, conductor and composer Robert Black.
He studied at Oberlin College; with Rosina Lhévinne and Beveridge Webster at the Juilliard School in New York, earning a master's degree in 1976 and a doctorate in 1979; and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.
In 1992, Black was the official U.S. representative at the First Shenyang International Music Festival in China.
[1] In 1991 William Black made the premiere recording of the second (1927) version of Rachmaninoff's Fourth Piano Concerto, with Igor Buketoff conducting the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.