JIJON, Ines

María Inés Jijón Rojas de Fernández Salvador (1909–1995), known as Inés Jijón, was an Ecuadorian pianist, composer, and teacher.

Jijón taught piano at the Instituto Interamericano de Música Sacra, at several schools in Quito, and from 1948 at the National Conservatory of Music. She performed with the Ecuadorian National Symphony Orchestra, and on various radio programmes. Jijón was also director of musical arts at the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, with whom she published her work Catálogo general del Museo de Instrumentos Pedro Traversari in 1971. She was involved in the organisation of the Library of Ecuadorian Musical Works (Spanish: Biblioteca de Obras Musicales Ecuatorianas) and the Museum of Musical Arts (Spanish: Museo de Artes Musicales).

Jijón composed over 150 songs, several of which won prizes.