A desire for more space (and extreme distress at the sighting of several rats) sent Yuyu Ikeda scurrying away from her five-person apartment on the Upper West Side in the summer of 2025. But Ms. Ikeda, a classical violinist, didn’t head for the exit solo.
Also bailing: Carlos Martinez Arroyo, a fellow violinist whom she had met a year earlier, when both were playing in a recital, and Mr. Martinez Arroyo’s girlfriend, May Yu, likewise a violinist, with a day job in private sales at Tarisio, a firm that deals in fine and rare musical instruments.